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Andrew Stephens · May 14, 2007, 05:10 AM

Hello

I notice this on both my Intel mini and my MPB Pro.

The sidebar icons for (particularly) the desktop and My computer repeatedly become corrupt.

Restarting fixes this sometimes, sometimes not. Also icons for classic apps seem to do the same thing.

Does anyone else get this. When it happens it seems to affect the overall stability of the mac too.

CharlesS · May 14, 2007, 05:20 AM

Go to /Library/Caches and delete everything that starts with com.apple.LaunchServices. Then reboot and your problem should hopefully go away.

Andrew Stephens · May 17, 2007, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by CharlesS

Go to /Library/Caches and delete everything that starts with com.apple.LaunchServices. Then reboot and your problem should hopefully go away.

Thanks for the help CharlesS, good try!

Followed your steps, fixed problem for about an hour. Then suddenly iconsa are corrupt again. One major pain with this is that once this happens the main icons that become corrupted are those associated with old classic app files (we have lots of quark 4/5 docs in the office as our old G4's are still running 4/5 for clients who need jobs in that app.

Whenever you navigate to a folder with a corrupt classic app icon in it the OSX app instantly quits. It's very frustrating as it's easy to go to opena photoshop doc, forget to save some work, and stumble across a corrupted icon in the open dialogue and see photoshop and all your work go pop! I know, saving is the (part) answer but sometimes you do forget.

Both my MAc mini and MPB behave identically in this respect. A full restart does not normally fix the icons.

TETENAL · May 17, 2007, 08:52 AM

If you navigate to a file in Finder then Photoshop quits? That's weird. Something like that should not happen. Can you post the crash log?

Andrew Stephens · May 17, 2007, 09:18 AM

no, whatever app I am navigating to a file in quits as soon as a corrupted icon is displayed in the dialogue box.

TETENAL · 10:50 AM

a) Run "Repair Disk" in Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility->First Aid until it reports the volume appears to be OK

b) Post the crash log

CharlesS · May 17, 2007, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

a) Run "Repair Disk" in Application/Utilities/Disk Utility->First Aid until it reports the volume appears to be OK

Seconded. Alternatively, you could run DiskWarrior if you have it.

Also, I'm curious whether you have any haxies installed.